It was <2013-12-31 wto 06:26>, when MyungJoo Ham wrote:
>>  It was <2013-12-25 ?ro 14:12>, when Yin Kangkai wrote:
>> > On 2013-12-25, 13:53 +0100, Stephane Desneux wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> So regarding your question, Tizen:Generic/armv7/X11 shouldn't be far from
>>>> mobile, except that the specific components won't be installed. This image
>>>> should be installable on a RD-PQ. The same applies to Intel based mobile
>>>> platforms.
>>>
>>> But to be honest, I don't think kernel is in that package set. (As
>>> discussed in another thread in this list) kernel is always specific
>>> for different vertical/hardware,
>>
>> Indeed they need different configuration. However, I can see no reason
>> why all verticals can't use a single source tree. If some need some
>> hardware support this should not be a problem for others. If a profile
>> needs a patch for kernel's "core" (mm, scheduler, security etc.) that
>> conflicts with other verticals we need to resolve the conflict not hide it.
>
> I also think it would be ideal to share the same source tree.
> However, the circumstances don't seem to be that ideal now.  Thus, I
> don't think this is something we can go right now. (At least not for
> Tizen 3.0)
>
> For now, the expected benefit of sharing the source tree between x86
> Tizen "references" and ARM Tizen "references" or IVI and Mobile:
> - Sharing bugfix patches. (However, expected to be included in LTS
> anyway if you use LTS. So this benefit is very limited for LTS kernel
> users)
> - Aethestic Kernel (not too significant)

- and a smaller risk of userland failing after too fast updates.

There is of course another way to address this problem which I have
proposed already: multiple Verified labels in gerrit, one for every
image/profile.

Kind regards,
-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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